Sign-bracket for automobiles.



L. P. WHITCHER.

SIGN BRACKET FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLIOATION FILED 111111.31, 1913.

1,091,553. Patented 111111.31, 1914 /Vz'nessee fnvenor. MMT QM LYMAN P. WHITGHEB, F PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SIGN-BRACKET F01?, AUTOMOBILES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 31,1914.

Application led March 31, 1913. Serial N o. 757,739.

To all whom 'it may concern:

-Be it known that I, LYMAN P. WHITCBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sign- Brackets for Automobiles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sign holders for automobiles, and has for its essential objects the provision of means for applying a sign to the front portion of an automobile, and more particularly to the radiator thereof; to provide a structure that is capable of being simply and cheaply manufactured, and one that is capable of facile adjustment to any size of sign, and whose attaching means is certain, firm, and adapted to all circumstances.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specilicationz-Figure l is a front elevation of my holder or bracket, applied to the front of an automobile radiator, the latter being shown with its lower portion broken away, Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same, Fig. 3, a front elevation of the bracket removed from the radiator, Fig. 4, a plan of the same, Fig. 5, an enlarged side elevation of the portion of one of the threaded rods, showing in side elevation an adjusting disk and bearing disk having parts broken away, and Fig. 6, a section on line of Fig. 3.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

In the drawings A indicates the radiator of an automobile in conjunction with which my invention is in the present instance to be described. The detailed costruction of the radiator may .be of any well-known type, and is provided with the usual interstices or openings a.

My holder consists of a body portion B which is preferably in one piece, cut in the first instance from a strip of metal and bent into the desired shape. In detail the body is angular in cross section, comprising a horizontal portion b and a vertical or downwardly directed portion o. At the ends of the horizontal portion are rearwardly directed curved arms C terminating in upwardly turned circular lugs o provided with perforations c. The vertical portion of the body is provided with downwardly directed curved arms D whose ends are upwardly bent forming hooks d. Integral with an intermediate portion of the'portion 1) of the body 1s a rearwardly directed inclined arm E provided at its end with a circular attaching lug e having a perforation e. The portion b of the body is provided with an openlng f, and passing loosely through this 1s a screw Gr provided with a head g and a threaded shank g. This screw passes through an opening z. in a plate I-I comprismg a horizontal portion h parallel with the portion b, and having upon its forward portlon a vertically disposed hook I whose beak i is downwardly directed; and has a nut J upon the shank g of the screw, and by means of this member H maybe vertically adjusted. A number plate K may rest in the upturned hooks d and is clamped in such position by the vertical downwardly directed hook I operated by the screw Gr and nut J. By the screw and nut adjustment my device is adapted to accommodate number plates of varying sizes.

The attaching portion of the bracket consists of rods L passing through the opening cin the lugs e provided with screw heads Z bearing against the face of the lugs, and provided also at their rear ends with screw threads Z. The rods L pass through the openings a in the radiator and carry upon their rear ends disks or nuts M provided with threaded openings m adapted to engage the threads Z of the rods. It is preferable that there be mounted upon the rods L adjacent the lugs c and the disks M washers or disks N and O respectively consisting of some soft compressible material which accommodate the attachin parts more readily to the irregular suraces of the radiator. A similar rod P passes through the opening e in the arm E and is provided with a screw head p and a screw thread 7). Upon this rod is a disk Q similar in all respects to the disks M, and there is provided also the washer or bearing disks q and q similar in structure to the washers N and O. In attaching the supporting portion of the bracket the nuts or disks M and Q are turned upon the threaded rods approximately to their final position with relation to the rear surface of the radiator and then by a screw driver the heads Z and p of the -rods are finally tightened thus forcing the several washers into tight engage-vA v ment with the face -of the radiator.

What I claim is l. 'In a sign bracket for automobiles, the combination of a body. provided with an opening, rearwardly-directed arms integral with the ends of the body, lugs upon the arms, downwardly-directed arms upon the body, upwardly-directed hooks upon the last-mentioned arms, a plate provided with an opening in alinement with the said opening of the body, a vertically-disposed downwardly-directed hook upon the plate in the vertical'plane of the first-mentioned hooks, a screw passed through the openings in the body and plate, and a nut upon said'screw; 2. In 'a sign bracket for automobiles, the combination of a body composed of a Single piece of material langular in cross section and comprising a horizontal portion and a depending portion, arms integral with the horizontal portion, attaching lugs upon the ends of the arms, an inclined arm integral with the horizontal portion, an attaching lug upon the last mentioned arm, depending Y arms integral with the depending portion of the body, upwardly directed hooks upon 3. In a sign bracket for automobiles, the

combination of a body, horizontal arms yupon the body, lugs upon the arms provided with perforations, a rearwardly inclined arm'upon the body, a lug upon the arm provvided with a perforation, arms depending strom the body, hooks upon the ends of the last mentioned arms, rods passing loosely through the persforations in the lugs provided with threads, heads upon the rods engaging the outer surfaces of thev lugs, and

disks provided with threads adaptedto engage the threads upon the rods. In testimony whereof I have atixed my signature in presence'of` two witnesses.

LYMAN P. WHITCHER. Witnesses HoRA'rIo E. Bnnnows, Fawn W. PERKINS. 

